Augustinian, Ignatian, and Benedictine Spiritual Legacies
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In last week’s post, we featured information on a variety
of topics: Readings for the 14th Sunday of the Year, Year C;
a new blog - “Catholic Windows on the World”; two
book reviews - one on the Fatima apparition and the
other on the happiness one obtains from having faith
in God; an article on mystics, saints, visions and
apparitions; an article on the way of prayer of
St. Francis of Assisi; and a featured page on writers
wanting to clarify the confusion caused by the holy
father’s reintroduction of the Latin Mass. For those who
wish to review or to know more in detail about these
topics, you can visit it by clicking here.
The current post for today contains eleven new articles,
posts, and news clips from Zenit:
Aside from the Lectionary reading for the 15th Sunday of
the Year, there are two articles on prayer, one book
reviews, and site news from our partner web site,
Gospel and Culture.
This post features:
- Site News: “Gospel and Culture”
- eBook Reconstructed Ahead of Schedule! - Books and Sacred Art on St.
Benedict of Nursia - Zenit News: St. Elizabeth
of Hungary, Model of Charity - Integration: The Way of
St. Benedict, by Anselm Grun, OSB - Obtaining Spiritual
Benefits from Ignatian Prayer - Canonizations of two
religious founders - Zenit News - Seven Easy Augustinian
Prayer Suggestions - Lectionary Readings
for the 15th Sunday of the Year, Year C - Family: A Place of Vocations
- Zenit News - Partner Web Site Under
Reconstruction and Reorganization - Finding Fresh Angles for
Old Ideas: CIM Net Educ., July 2007
Site News: Gospel and Culture
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Books and Art on St. Benedict of Nursia
Church historians are recounting how St. Benedict lived in a
time when evil and vices in the world was escalating. Benedict’s
response was a monastic one - and one that influenced not only the
European continent during his time but also many people who founded
their religious institutes based on his Rule. This page features a
book on his life by Louis Wohl and sacred medals which are said to
protect the person against evil when it is carried with him with his
personal items. Many authors and writers, contemporary ones, are
saying that we are again in the “age of Benedict” - one when there
is a need to make a creative response against the escalating evil
and vice in the world today.
Zenit: Elizabeth of Hungary, Model of Charity
On the occasion of St. Elizabeth’s feast last November 17, Pope
Benedict continues to promote her example of charity to the European
continent. It has been now 800 years since her birth in 1207 and still
her spirituality of charity - influenced by her spiritual father, St.
Francis, is a model exemplar for those called to sanctify the world of
politics. This news clip from Zenit tells a brief background on St.
Elizabeth and how Pope Benedict is promoting her example to a Europe
who needs to regain and reroot itself back to its Christian heritage.
Integration: The Way of St. Benedict
Midlife is that time in peoples’ lives when a lot of integration
needs to be done. This book by Anselm Grun uses some psychology to
help us see how in our human development, there is a great process of
integration especially being experienced in midlife. The author uses
St. Benedict as the example par excellence of a man who has gone through
many critical phases in his life history and reached his full maturation
in Christ upon entering into many important “integration” phases. For
those who want to gather and obtain some insight into human development
and the journey towards self-realization and individuation, this is one
good book to collect gems and priceless treasures of human wisdom: both
in its psychological elements and in its spiritual foundations.
Obtaining Benefits in Ignatian Prayer
The purpose of the Ignatian prayer method is to obtain practical
fruit from using the sensible imagination in one’s meditation on the
gospels and other scripture texts. As one learns to imagine himself as
a character in the gospels and practice listening to all elements in the
gospel event: from people to things, to miracles, to healings, to places,
to sights, smells, and especially to the person of Jesus Himself - the
insights and points of wisdom that can be obtained from such meditation
method can help give fresh angles and perspectives to the concerns, worries
and problems one presently encounters in one’s life. Very biblically based,
this prayer method by St. Ignatius need not be rigidly practiced. There
is a simple ten step structure which can be followed in order to gain much
spiritual benefit.
Canonizations of Two Religious Founders
This brief news clip from Zenit news tells us that the Catholic Church
is filled with so many faithful who witnessed to Christ with such a great
noble and heroic degree that they are worthy of canonization. Two founders
are to be canonized: an Italian priest and a Swiss woman. Miracles are also
attributed to seven beatus and servants of God; martyrdom is also attributed
to a group in Italy 527 years ago; and heroic virtues are attributed to eight
servants of God whom the Church is working for their beatification. This
news report lists these people and give brief descriptions of each one.
Seven Easy Augustinian Prayer Suggestions
Remember the article on the prayer method of St. Augustine? In that
article, the Augustinian prayer method is briefly described and explained
and one suggestion is given towards the end of the article. This article
is a spinoff from that first article. It now gives seven more good but easy
and brief prayer suggestions which you can use for your prayer time with
your bible on hand. The seven prayer suggestions given in this article
are taken from a booklet used by those in novitiate formation to religious
life. Though this prayer suggestions may require some form of serious
space and time, it is easy though and can be prayed at your own pace and
at your own convenience in the privacy of your room or in the adoration
chapel.
Lectionary Readings
The Readings for the 15th Sunday of the Year, Year C are taken from:
the book of Deuteronomy, the letter to the Colossians and the gospel
of Luke. The book of Deuteronomy and the gospel of Luke has basically
the same theme: that of the law of God’s love in our hearts. But Jesus
in the gospel of Luke goes on further to teach what this law of God’s
love in our hearts means in the concrete: helping our neighbor. And
he teaches the parable of the Good Samaritan to show us that God’s
love goes beyond barriers of discrimination and social class. In the
letter of Paul to the Colossians, St. Paul teaches us the primacy of
Christ in all creation: first among the creatures - visible or invisible.
And Christ became Man to reconcile all of us sinners to Himself
- making peace through the blood of his cross.
Family: A Place of Vocations
This brief news clip from Zenit news tells about the importance
of the family as a “vineyard” for the maturation of Christian
vocations. This news from Zadar, Croatia, tells us that although
Europe may be facing difficulty at this time in producing Christian
vocations due to a certain “Christophobia”, there is still hope.
As long as Catholic parents promote a culture of life, educate their
children towards the right use of freedom, and present holiness as
a fascinating project to hand on with joy to succeeding generations,
then Europe only has to wait in patience for this growth and
maturation to come.
Partner Web Site Under Reconstruction
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Catholic eBook. The site has obtained a new domain and at this
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a Catholic web log or web site according to our way of proceeding.
Finding Fresh Angles for Old Blog Ideas
For someone who has already started a Catholic web log or web site,
maintaining traffic is usually easy as long as you keep to your
regular postings or writing of content and articles. However, once
there is something in the industry that changes, your traffic statistics
will certainly be affected - oftentimes plunging it to distressing
levels. Before this happens, or if it already happened in the past,
there is one remedy to this situation: it is finding ever new fresh
angles for one’s old web log ideas. Looking at what you write from
fresh angles and perspectives can help others also see more and
know more and discover information that they might have not noticed
before. To get to know how we can find fresh angles is a matter of
using other media in obtaining information: like print and video,
and then combine it with one’s intuitive perceptions.
